Kimberly
Indovina,
MD, FACP, FHM
IPE Assistant Director; Associate Professor
University of Colorado
Kimberly A. Indovina, MD, FACP, FHM is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz. She works clinically in both hospital medicine and palliative medicine at Denver Health, an urban academic safety-net hospital. She also serves as an Assistant Director of the CU Center for Interprofessional Practice & Education. Dr Indovina completed her BA in biochemistry and Spanish at the University of Kansas, MD at the University of Colorado, internal medicine residency at the University of Minnesota, and community-based hospice and palliative medicine fellowship at the University of Colorado. Her academic interests include interprofessional education, palliative medicine, patient experience, care of vulnerable populations, and clinical communication.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The opioid epidemic is a current public health emergency. Opioid overdoses caused over 100,000 deaths in the U.S. in 2022 alone and continues to rise. Addressing this epidemic takes a collaborative and interprofessional approach. At the University of Colorado (CU) Anschutz Medical Campus, students from dental medicine, medicine, undergraduate nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, and physician assistant programs engage in the Interprofessional Healthcare Ethics & Health Equity (IPHE) course that brings together over 650 students to learn about healthcare ethics and equity by examining the…
Background To address critical collaborative practice skills, we developed a 1-credit hour Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (IPCP) course for early health profession learners from six programs. IPCP cultivates fundamental competencies in teamwork and collaboration. Through a combination of synchronous and asynchronous modules, learners engage in interprofessional teams to achieve course objectives including understanding team and professional roles, exploring effective teamwork, providing feedback, and recognizing the impact of collaboration on healthcare outcomes. Interprofessional…